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Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off
- suking 15y agoMission Accomplished.
- freddealmeida 15y agoI LOL'd to that. Ah Bush. I should put that on my resume.
- ignifero 15y agoand facebook comments too
- kijinbear 15y agoLooks like a ripoff of Linode's logo, topped with a bit of Minecraft texture.
- ChrisArchitect 15y agothere's so much Tetris goin on there too. Also, cue logo design (mis)trend of late 2011 - the pixelated fade. ala..I think it was MS stuff/Windows back in like....turn of the century?
- markkat 15y agoImpressed. Looks pretty good. But those titles with the green remind me of The Onion.
- ddw 15y agoWhy do I think of Breitbart every time I think of TechCrunch?
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- sp332 15y agoAnd a follow-up post, A Copy-And-Paste Hatemail Template http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/11/the-techcrunch-redesign-a-copy-and-paste-hatemail-template/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/11/the-techcrunch-redesign-a-c...
- rumblestrut 15y agoI'm not a fan of the overall design, but the way the logo disappears into the top bar (scroll slowly) is pretty darn cool.
- kogir 15y agoAre the black boxes instead of images on purpose? http://imgur.com/fw52e http://imgur.com/fw52e
- k33l0r 15y agoApparently JavaScript must be enabled if you want to see the pictures.
- MaysonL 15y agoAnother great reason to ignore the site.
- kloncks 15y agoIt's really not that bad. I hated the new Facebook layout before liking it again. Who knows how I'll feel in a few weeks. It's all about metrics anyways. If this layout raises activity on site or visits, then good job. If not, I'm sure they'll do edits. Why do we just bash TC like no other?
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- ddemchuk 15y agoWhy does loading TechCrunch take me 9 seconds? What exactly are they doing to cause such a slow load? Why does a page load for them require 330 requests?
- nkassis 15y agoI'm going to say without looking that's it's for ads. Oh and I'm sure that blocky logo isn't compressed at all, (same effect could have been done with the logo at 50x50 scaled up ;p)
- phamilton 15y agoSome browsers blur scaled up images so you don't get that nice blocky image.
- k33l0r 15y agoThey seem to have no idea about site optimization. The home page gets a C in Google's Page Speed and a D from YSlow: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/techcrunch.com/yUjb1zjR http://gtmetrix.com/reports/techcrunch.com/yUjb1zjR
- bugsy 15y agoThe logo truly is a horrifically bad design, so much so that I just don't buy the claim that it is intentionally bad. That's just an attempt to save face because it is bad. Glad to hear they are working on the speed problem. I solved it a while back by installing every ad blocker I could find. edit: oh gosh, it's worse than I thought. The small squares of the 3 size grid on the right are a slightly different size than the 4 size grid of the logo. You can't convince me that is intentionally bad, that's just bad, sloppy, terrible work.
- bemmu 15y agoHere's an extension to remove it :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enejibegbgfghbnanppenmkjenhjjdmn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enejibegbgfghbnanp...
- rickmb 15y agoThe amount of hollow marketing speak in this post suggests it's a rationalization after the fact. Which usually indicates the original criteria was mostly a matter of "ooh, that looks pretty". Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the need to rationalize intuitive decisions with BS phrases like "It’s a design that breaks more news than its competitors, that loves the code junkies working 22-hour days to build world-changing products." makes me want to barf.
- streeter 15y agoGood thing I only read TC in a feed reader. Then I don't have to actually visit the site anymore.
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